We have really enjoyed your support and following over the last year – it's been a wonderful and altogether delicious one for us. Again! We launched our third book It's Always About the Food in Australia in March, the USA in June and the rest of the world in July. We have been happily busy with launches and events, interviews and TV appearances, cooking classes and social media. We hope you've enjoyed being part of our journey and we look forward to more of the same in the coming year.
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Happy cooking, and happy holidays to all!
Preheat the oven to 170°C. Line the base of a 38 x 26 cm swiss roll tin with baking paper. You will need a few dressmaking pins to secure the cake.
Melt the chocolate with the coffee and water in a double boiler or in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Allow to cool slightly. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. In a separate bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the melted chocolate. Fold this mixture into the egg whites and spread it out into the prepared tin.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. When the cake is cool, cover with a tea towel and put in the fridge for 1 hour.
Beat the cream with the icing sugar and vanilla seeds until thick, and set aside.
Remove the cake from the fridge. Sift the cocoa powder over the cake, then cover with a piece of baking paper and turn it over. Remove the tin and the baking paper that was on base of the cake.
Place cream in the middle third of the cake, along its full length, and make a large long log as follows. Lift up the two long sides of the cake and bring them over to meet in the middle, sliding one side under the other to encase the cream. Using dressmaking pins to secure the package, join the paper and fold down, holding the paper tightly around the log to help hold its shape. Put the cake in the fridge until ready to serve.
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December 2, 2015 - CSR, Territory
The Soup Kitchen project of BNP Paribas and Sofia Municipality starts its 14th season
Sofia, 2 December 2015 It is 14 years already that BNP Paribas Bulgaria, in cooperation with Sofia Municipality, has been supporting disadvantaged people in Bulgaria with warm meals during the cold winter months. In line with the BNP Paribas Group's…
November 6, 2015 - Territory
BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch named "Best Foreign Bank Branch" at the annual "Bank of the Year" ceremony
BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch named "Best Foreign Bank Branch" at the annual "Bank of the Year" ceremony BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch was named "Best Foreign Bank Branch of the Year" at the ceremony for "Bank of…
April 16, 2015 - Territory
Amendment in General Terms and Conditions of BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch
Dear Clients, We would like to inform you that BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch will implement new General Terms and Conditions, valid as of 1 May 2015. The document is at your disposal in Bulgarian and English at the…
March 12, 2015 - Territory
BNP Paribas supports the exhibition for the Thracian kings in the Louvre
BNP Paribas joins the initiative for restoration of masterpieces from the Bulgarian antiquity and their exposition in the Louvre from the 15th of April 2015. The exhibition "Epopee of Thracian Kings: Archaeological Finds in Bulgaria"brings together more than 1600 artifacts….
December 4, 2014 - Territory
Foundation BNP Paribas Bulgaria, Sofia Municipality and their partners continue the Soup Kitchen project for 13th consecutive year
Since 2002 BNP Paribas Bulgaria has been supporting disadvantaged people in Bulgaria by providing warm meals during the cold winter months with the cooperation of Sofia Municipality. The charitable undertaking called Soup Kitchen has been successfully helping underprivileged citizens for…
September 18, 2014 - Regional News, Territory
Information for cardholders' hot line service
As of 23 September 2014, during the non-business hours of the Bank and during holidays, the telephone line +359 2 9218 688 will be operated by Borica-Bankservice AD. The process for the cardholders of BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia branch…
November 28, 2013 - Territory
12 years of commitment to disadvantaged people in Bulgaria: Foundation BNP Paribas Bulgaria and its partners continue the Soup Kitchen project
Since 2002 BNP Paribas Bulgaria has been supporting disadvantaged people in Bulgaria by providing warm meals during the cold winter months with the cooperation of Sofia Municipality. Starting on the initiative of BNP Paribas S.A. – Sofia Branch's employees in…
October 29, 2013 - Territory
Foundation BNP Paribas Bulgaria and Bulgarian Antarctic Institute (BAI) present a powerful exhibition "Travel to Livingston"
Photos by Milena Marincheva and BAI narrate the journey of the Bulgarian Antarctic expedition and document the sustainable development of the Bulgarian Antarctic Research Base An official inauguration of the exhibition and a presentation of Milena Marincheva's book "Travel to…
BNP Paribas announces its 2013 UK charity of the year
BNP Paribas is pleased to announce that the NSPCC has been chosen as its 2013 UK Charity of the Year. BNP Paribas' UK-based employees were asked to elect their favourite cause from a shortlist of four charities, with the NSPCC…
November 15, 2010 - Group, Standard, Territory
BNP Paribas launches its first corporate advertising campaign
In order to boost its international brand awareness, BNP Paribas is launching its first ever global corporate advertising campaign. The campaign will be deployed in most countries around the world apart from France, where the Group's brand awareness is already…

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U.S.|California Today: Waiting on the Promise of Stem Cells
California Today
California Today: Waiting on the Promise of Stem Cells
Stem cell research is conducted at Stanford University, which has been a recipient of funding from California's stem cell agency.CreditCreditAlex di Suvero for The New York Times
By Mike McPhate
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More than a decade ago, Californians made a $3 billion wager on the healing potential of stem cell research.
Today, with that money projected to start running out in the next few years, what does the state have to show for it?
First, a recap.
In 2004, voters approved Proposition 71, a bond measure amounting to $6 billion with interest, which created a stem cell agency to help fund research. It was in part a response to limits on federal funding for stem cell research imposed by the government over concerns about destroying human embryos.
Campaigners at the time suggested the research could yield cures for afflictions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and cancer.
The measure passed with 59 percent in support, and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, based in Oakland, was born.
Some of what's happened since then:
• More than 750 grants distributed
• A dozen research facilities constructed
• Roughly 2,000 scholarly papers published
• More than 2,400 students and young scientists trained
• About 30 projects that include clinical trials funded
Still, the agency has yet to finance a therapy approved for commercial use.
Critics say that's led to public disappointment because the campaign for Proposition 71 oversold how quickly treatments might emerge. Stem cell research is a young field, scientists say — these things take decades, not years.
But stand by, they say.
"The biggest leaps in stem cell applications are yet to come," said Ken Zaret, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Some critics have also raised alarm over conflicts of interest at the stem cell agency that have allowed money to flow to board members' institutions.
Few would argue for an end to the research itself.
But if California taxpayers are asked to step up again, the governance problems must be fixed first, said Marcy Darnovsky, who runs the nonprofit Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley.
"I don't think they can just see it as a do-over," she added.
Jonathan Thomas, the stem cell agency chairman, said he was trying to meet looming funding challenges with philanthropic support and industry partnerships. (Complicating matters: The agency's president, C. Randal Mills, unexpectedly announced on Tuesday that he was leaving for a new job.)
At the same time, Robert Klein, the real estate developer who spearheaded Proposition 71, is eyeing the possibility of another voter initiative.
It would appear on the 2018 ballot. The ask this time? $5 billion.
California Online
(Please note: We regularly highlight articles on news sites that have limited access for nonsubscribers.)
Benito Jiménez Alarcón sat in the common area at a Tijuana shelter, hoping to be granted asylum. He said he was kidnapped and held for three days by gang members in the Mexican state of Guerrero.CreditSandy Huffaker for The New York Times
• "There is no asylum here." Contrary to law, American border agents are turning away asylum seekers, lawyers say. [The New York Times]
• A landlord was accused of harassing rent-controlled tenants in San Francisco. Now a court has ordered her to pay $2.4 million. [San Francisco Chronicle]
• "We are very, very sorry." Water officials faced a frustrated crowd in Oroville after the dam crisis. [Sacramento Bee]
• A wealthy businessman and his wife donated $110 million to Cal Poly, his alma mater. [The Tribune]
Kumail Nanjiani in Los Angeles in April.CreditBrinson+Banks for The New York Times
• Is Hollywood's new Mr. Right an immigrant rom-com hero? Kumail Nanjiani's new movie makes the case. [The New York Times]
• "City leaders should be fighting for more access to Griffith Park and the Hollywood sign, not less." [Opinion | Los Angeles Times]
• Facebook will add 3,000 people to the team monitoring Facebook Live for inappropriate, offensive or illegal content. [The New York Times]
• Last year President Trump challenged Apple to do more manufacturing in the United States. Now, the company appears to be meeting him halfway. [The New York Times]
• Scientists found that a kind of zooplankton can filter all of the water between 300 and 1,000 feet deep in Monterey Bay in less than two weeks. [The New York Times]
Botanica's garden patio is lined with potted plants — aromatics like lavender, basil, chives and sage, plus honeysuckle and jasmine.CreditJulia Stotz
• A look inside Botanica, Los Angeles's newest healthy place to eat — and shop. [The New York Times]
• The Bay Area is becoming a global hub of faux meat innovation. [San Francisco Chronicle]
• Before photography, painters captured history. A new show at the Getty in Los Angeles has their versions. [The New York Times]
And Finally ...
Early morning fog rolled through San Diego's Balboa Park.CreditScott Opis
It's been called one of the country's most inviting urban parks.
Created in 1868, San Diego's Balboa Park is also the city's cultural heart.
Among the offerings: a renowned zoo (pandas!), 17 museums and cultural institutions, 10 performance spaces and the Botanical Building, a century-old lath structure with more than 2,100 plants.
Two readers, Scott Opis and Ernesto Rivera, shared photos of scenes they captured of the park.
The Botanical Building is among the park's most photographed scenes.CreditErnesto Rivera
Balboa Park's beautifully kept 1,200 acres are crisscrossed by 65 miles of trails. There are any number of recreational activities to do: golf, lawn bowling, tennis, archery, bicycle track racing, footgolf.
The park also hosts one of the country's most curious job titles: civic organist.
Since 1917, San Diego has had an official organist who performs free Sunday concerts at the outdoor Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
Please note: Because of a technical issue, some photos in this newsletter may not appear for people using the Times iPad app.
Want to submit a photo for possible publication? You can do it here.
California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays. Tell us what you want to see: CAtoday@nytimes.com.
The California Today columnist, Mike McPhate, is a third-generation Californian — born outside Sacramento and raised in San Juan Capistrano. He lives in Davis. Follow him on Twitter.
California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from U.C. Berkeley.


Driving and learning languages aren't easy. Your brain is doing a lot of things and learning to do a lot of things differently. Don't expect to be a master from day one. Just be patient and go at your own speed.
Take your time and soon you'll be flying!
Making mistakes and getting stuck are all parts of any learning process. Just like you stall a car, sometimes you'll be half way into a sentence and forget a word or not know how to finish your sentence. Relax! Just take a breath, pump the brakes, and start over. Everybody knows you're just learning, they're not going to kill you for it!
That's why the older you are, the cheaper your insurance is! You'll often hear that children have the mind of a sponge and can pick up languages in the blink of an eye. However, that's not necessarily true.
It's been shown that in some ways, adults are even better than children. Adults already know a language and they can use this to help them learn. They don't tend to master pronunciation as well as children but there's nothing wrong with a bit of an accent.
If you're always a passenger, you probably think you know what everything in a car does. But have you ever driven? Try and remember the first time you got behind the wheel. Were you an immediate expert thanks to a decade and a half of being a passenger? I doubt it! Did you get better by actually driving? Of course you did.
Language is exactly the same. You can study for years and never really use your language. You won't see much benefit in your language learning until you actually start creating language, both by writing and by speaking.
Learning a language opens doors. Just like owning a car gives you the freedom to go where you want, speaking another language will take you plenty of places. You'll have better career prospects and another skill to put on your CV. You'll be able to meet and speak to people that you wouldn't necessarily know before. The world is your oyster!


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Daily Art (6/30/20) – Femmes Devant la Mer, Pablo Picasso
Posted on June 30, 2020 June 4, 2020 by NJBiblio
Daily Artwork — "Femmes Devant la Mer, Pablo Picasso, 1956"
1956 — Femmes Devant la Mer. Oil paint on canvas. Cubism style. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Centre Pompidou, Paris France.
Daily Art (6/29/20) – The Little Foot Page, Eleanor Foretscue-Brickdale
Daily Artwork — "The Little Foot Page, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, 1905"
1905 — The Little Foot Page. Oil paint on canvas. Modernism style. Eleanor Foretscue-Brickdale (1872-1945). Walker Gallery of Art, Liverpool, England, UK.
Daily Art (6/26/20) – Still Life with Set Square, Romans Suta
Daily Artwork — "Still LIfe with Set Square, Romans Suta, 1924"
1924 — Still Life with Set Square. Oil paint on canvas. Modernism style. Romans Suta (1896-1944). Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia.
Daily Art (6/25/20) – The Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle, Jackson Pollock
Daily Artwork — "The Moon Woman Cuts the Circle, Jackson Pollock"
1943 — The Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle. Oil paint on canvas. Abstract Expressionism style. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Daily Art (6/24/20) – Dog Lying in the Snow, Franz Marc
Daily Artwork — "Dog Lying in the Snow, Franz MArc, 1911"
1911 — Dog Lying in the Snow. Oil paint on canvas. Expressionism style. Franz Marc (1880-1916). Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Daily Art (6/23/20) – State Park, Jared French
Daily Artwork — "State Park, Jared French, 1946"
1946 — State Park. Tempera on composition board. Magic Realism style. Jared French (1904-1988). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA.
Daily Art (6/22/20) – Cyclists, Malle Leis
Daily Artwork — "Cyclists, MAlle Leis, 1972"
1972 — Cyclists. Oil paint on canvas. Contemporary Art style. Malle Leis (1940-2017). Private collection.
Daily Art (6/19/20) – The Yellow Dress, John Bulloch Souter
Daily Artwork — "The Yellow Dress, John Bulloch Souter"
20th Century — The Yellow Dress. Oil paint on canvas. Realism style. John Bulloch Souter (1890-1972). Private collection.
Daily Art (6/18/20) – California News, William Sidney Mount
Daily Artwork — "CaliforniA News, WIlliam Sydney Mount, 1850"
1850 — California News. Oil paint on canvas. Genre Painting style. William Sydney Mount (1807-1868). Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Daily Art (6/17/20) – Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival, Hiroshige
Daily Artwork — "Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival, Hiroshige, 1857"
1857 — Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival. Color woodblock print. Edo Period. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Multiple collections, including the Brooklyn Museum (NYC, NY), The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and The Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, CA).


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Brody Jenner Gets Engaged To Kaitlynn Carter
Filed Under:Brody Jenner, Engagement, Instagram, Kaitlynn Carter, Marry, Proposal, reality tv
Brody Jenner & Kaitlynn Carter (credit: Dylan Rives/Getty Images)
By Ned Ehrbar
(CBS NEWS) – Sorry gals, Brody Jenner is officially spoken for.
After two years of dating, the reality TV star and his girlfriend, model Kaitlynn Carter, are taking their relationship to the next level, Jenner revealed via Instagram.
"On May 4th 2016 I got engaged to my lover and my best friend Kaitlynn Carter," the "Sex with Brody" star wrote. "I couldn't be more in love with this woman and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with her."
A post shared by Brody Jenner (@brodyjenner)
Carter shared the news on her own Instagram account as well, posting a similar photo — but with the engagement ring prominently focused as she caressed Jenner's face. "This trip has been memorable for many reasons," she wrote, dubbing herself the "happiest girl in the world."
The proposal marks Jenner's first engagement following a strong of high-profile relationships over the years to the like of Lauren Conrad and Avril Lavigne.


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Who Is My Mother, Who Are My Brothers?
Sara Zarr | Issue 61
Sara Zarr
This essay will appear in Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical, an anthology from Cascade Books, edited by Hannah Faith Notess.
ON THE DAY of my baptism, my father stood at the back of the church—hung-over, or quite possibly drunk even at that early hour—and shouted, "Hooray for Sara!" as I came up out of the water. I was eight years old.
That's how my mother remembers it. My memories are less dramatic: the heavy white robe I wore that was more like a thick doctor's coat than anything resembling the drapey garb of the flannel-graph versions of Jesus and his disciples I knew from Sunday school; stepping down into the chlorinated blue water of the baptismal; holding onto the solid forearm of my pastor as I followed his instructions—bend your knees, lean back, close your eyes, try to relax.
I did it because I'd seen other people at church do it. I did it for my mom, for my Sunday-school teacher, and also because I truly believed, at eight, that I was ready to make a public declaration of my faith. That's how I understood baptism: you believed in Jesus and then you proved it. I'm sure my father saw it as something even simpler—his youngest daughter mimicking her mother. What he didn't realize—what I would only come to grasp years later—was that he was witnessing a transfer of allegiance. When I came up out of the water, soaked and relieved to have not gotten any water up my nose, I was a member of a different family, the daughter of a different father.
There's a scene in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus is talking to a crowd. The topics are difficult and complex—the Sabbath, the devil, signs, miracles. Out of the blue, someone tells Jesus that his mother and brothers are standing outside waiting to talk to him. Jesus replies, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" He points to the disciples and says, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." In Luke's Gospel, Jesus pulls no punches. "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple."
In either version, the point is made. When you follow Jesus everything changes, including and perhaps especially the strongest, most natural ties a creature can have.
This notion of the church, fellow believers, as my family was ingrained early. No small part of that was a function of time and place. I grew up in San Francisco in the seventies, the cradle of the Jesus Movement. The Bay Area was full of orphaned flower children—hippies disillusioned by the drug and free-love scene that had failed them, but still seeking the ideals of community that the sixties had promised. Some of these seekers found faith in Jesus and infused it with their nonconformist approach to living, and soon Christian coffee houses, street evangelism, folk-inspired worship songs, and the rejection of confining church tradition all added up to a bona fide social phenomenon: the California Jesus Freak. And I was one of them, or at least, among them.
Our little Bible church was a mix of these born-again hippies, neighborhood natives, a few church ladies, and a handful of families that, like mine, had landed in San Francisco from other parts of the country. We had moved there in 1972, taking up residence in a roomy one-bedroom flat that a family like ours would never be able to afford today. It was my parents' last stop on a journey that had started in North Carolina and Pennsylvania and taken them through Ohio and Indiana, a road littered with the remains of my father's career and relationships all but ruined by his drinking. San Francisco was as far west as a pioneering spirit could go—literally and philosophically. Somewhere on that journey my mother became a born-again Christian; my father did not. He didn't have any enforceable objections, though, and my mother took us to and raised us in this neighborhood church.
Two prominent features on the landscape of seventies Christianity were the Second Chapter of Acts and the second chapter of Acts: the former, three siblings who made up one of the first contemporary Christian music groups and inspired many more who would come after; the latter, part of the biblical chronicle of the early church that includes a description of believers selling their possessions and sharing all they had, meeting in one another's homes and breaking bread with "glad and sincere hearts." Jesus Movement churches took this passage to heart, and most of our family bonding happened in the homes of members during the week. We'd crowd into each other's apartments for food, singing, prayer, and "sharing"—the distinctly post-sixties way of talking about God's work in our lives, how he spoke to us through the Bible and fellow believers, and the challenges of living our faith daily.
After my mom was hired to be the church secretary, I spent hour upon hour in the building after school, exploring all the little corners and closets, crawling on my belly under pews, stealing up to the balcony for a nap or to look again at the maroon choir robes that I'd never seen used and that had a smell I can only describe as pigeony. Though I liked the sense of privilege, the hours I spent there were also lonely, and symptomatic of my family's problems. My father, deep into his drinking, couldn't be counted on to take care of me, or to provide for the family, so Mom had to work, and the church was the only safe place for me to go after school. It was free of the alcohol-related anxieties that went with being home, but it wasn't home. The building was a sanctuary for me, but also a place of exile, because I wouldn't have been there if our family's situation hadn't been quite so desperate. Under different circumstances, if our blood relatives hadn't been so far away, maybe we wouldn't have run so quickly and completely into the embrace of a spiritual family. Maybe it wasn't so much about running toward something, into sanctuary, as away from something, into a comforting sort of exile that was, at the time, our only option.
Whatever it was—sanctuary, exile, or a little of both—it was genuine, and the center of our lives.
Our little slice of Acts 2, the home fellowship evenings, did not exclude children. My sister and I sat cross-legged on shag carpet or reclined against beanbag chairs many an evening and listened to adult stories of drug abuse, sexual debauchery, broken families, and failed attempts at right living. Everyone had testimony—a story about how hopeless, empty, and appalling their lives were before they found God, or God found them, and lifted them out of their sin.
The sharing and the testimonies and the prayers were my family stories. They asked and answered questions about who I was and where I'd come from and what my life would be about. What I heard, over and over, was this: Jesus lives. Jesus saves. Jesus loves, and loves me. I heard that even the most depraved, screwed-up lives were not beyond his saving grace and love. No one could go so far over the edge that they wouldn't be welcomed, like the prodigal son, back into the father's household. This knowledge, those testimonies, created one of the fundamental tensions of my childhood. Yes, my father was a sinner with a drinking problem, but at any moment he could have an experience like those I heard about in the home groups—a shock of recognition followed by surrender and the sinner's prayer—and he'd finally be part of our family, too. The possibility of his salvation, remote as it felt, hovered over every story and testimony that I heard. Maybe next time, I would think, it will be him.
One shadow lurked over and beneath all of the bonding and sharing and potlucking: the end times.
An obsession with end times theology was a hallmark of the seventies Jesus Movement. Hal Lindsey's 1970 book The Late, Great Planet Earth was a monster bestseller of the decade—The Purpose-Driven Life of its day, only with a profoundly disturbing message. Lindsey explored biblical prophesies about the end of the world and drew the conclusion that the apocalypse was mere moments away. The world was in for a good seven years of tribulation, complete with plagues, wars, and famines—unless you were a believer, in which case you'd be raptured. One second you'd be brushing your teeth, the next, your pajamas would be a puddle on the floor, your unsaved friends and family looking on, dumbfounded. We heard constantly in sermons, small groups, and conversation about the rapture, the anti-Christ, the mark of the beast, the tribulation, the millennium, the second coming of Jesus.
I couldn't imagine a future for myself, as I doubted I'd inhabit the planet through the week, never mind past eighteen. The horsemen and trumpets and Christ himself would be glorious, if I could remain faithful. If, in my own Peter-esque moments, I was strong enough to claim Christ and not deny him. When all my unbelieving friends were lining up to receive the mark of the beast, would I have the courage to say no? Knowing intimately my fundamental weaknesses as a human, I was pretty sure I'd be one of the sad, weak people who buckled early in the tribulation. Before age ten I'd already accumulated a lengthy roster of sin: stealing candy from the corner store, lying to my mom about how much TV I watched, calling the telephone operator and swearing at her, gossiping, reading from the copy of Penthouse Stories circulating at school. If I couldn't resist a candy bar, how would I withstand the genuine trials that were sure to come?
Our fear and trembling about Christ's return and the accompanying separation of wheat and chaff had another implication: each person's salvation was subject to eventual authentication. Even someone who appeared to be "in the family" might have a heart of darkness that would leave them behind while you were caught up in the clouds. After all, it says right in the Bible that "Not everyone who calls out to me, 'Lord! Lord!' will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my father in heaven will enter." The sense of impending world destruction created a heightened desire to be absolutely sure that you and the people in your spiritual family were really headed for the mansion in the sky and not the Other Place. More than once, I heard about various church members who were "backsliding," a term that seemed to mean anything from relapsing into drug use to missing a few Sundays in a row.
My angst over backsliders (including, possibly, me) was not helped by the Jack Chick tracts that surfaced everywhere during that time. I was mesmerized and horrified by the most ubiquitous of them: This Was Your Life. In it, a man is visited by the grim reaper, then taken by an angel to his appointment with judgment, where he watches as though on a movie screen every sinful moment of his life. In the end, even though people thought he was a good person and he went to church on Sundays, he is tossed into the lake of fire. This punishment seems to be the direct result of enjoying a cocktail, telling a dirty joke as a teenager, and wondering who was winning a football game instead of paying attention to a sermon in church. The last few pages of the tract depicted an alternate life for this man, in which he prays to receive Christ, visits the elderly, reads the Bible to children, and witnesses to the unsaved. The back included a prayer one could recite and thereby attain salvation. I said the prayer every time I saw it, just in case.
Ironically, those of us in that movement really thought we got it, thought that we more than anyone understood the gospel and all of its implications. We talked about grace, and about other churches and their "legalism." Looking back it seems that what grace meant to us was being able to wear jeans to church and play the guitar, that we still didn't really get it. At least I didn't. The more information I absorbed from various quarters, the more I believed it didn't take all that much for a person to move from being right in the center of the family to being more like a distant cousin, then a black sheep, and eventually not in the family photo at all. The one comfort was that as far as I knew, those who left did so by choice, not by force. The church's open door worked both ways—anyone seeking Jesus could come in, and anyone who decided they needed to leave was free to do just that.
This proved to be the case with my biological family, too. Shortly after the eighties began, my father left us for good, returning to Pennsylvania without a California testimony.
The final nail in the coffin of idealized seventies Christianity, for me, came in the summer of 1982. While visiting my father and grandmother in Pennsylvania, I hid in my father's childhood bedroom and watched TV while they fought. A news report came on: Christian singer Keith Green—who I idolized, and had seen in concert—two of his children, and nine other people had died in a small-plane crash while Green was showing off his Last Days Ministries property.
It didn't seem possible. My parents were divorced, the Cold War was coming to a frightening crescendo, Keith Green was dead, and, Hal Lindsey notwithstanding, Jesus hadn't come back yet. Where did that leave us?
In the suburbs, eventually, where we moved when my mother remarried. We still attended and participated in my childhood church, but it was different. With people moving out of the city and having kids and real jobs and real money and real mid-life crises, home gatherings were no longer so convenient. There was a sense that we'd given Acts 2 our best, naïve shot, and it was time to move on. Not that those ideals were completely discarded—I think members of that church still believed there was no point just showing up Sunday mornings if you weren't ever going to share your life with anyone. Efforts were made. It was just that other things were now allowed to get in the way. After all, if we weren't actually as close to the end times as we'd thought, there was no longer any real rush.
And, as it turned out, you could fight with your church family as readily as with your biological family. It was frighteningly easy, in fact, to lose touch with anyone you wanted to lose touch with, or anyone who wanted to lose touch with you. Minor or major doctrinal differences, arguments over whether or not to invest in new chairs or hymnals, the content of Sunday school curriculum, plain boredom…anything could be an excuse to leave if that was what one wanted.
My disillusionment was complete when the pastor I'd grown up with left in a church split. I don't remember the specifics, just that discussions were heated, meetings endless, emotions high. Members were left wounded and questioning whether anything they'd experienced during the good old days was as authentic and meaningful as we'd believed while it was all happening. Some wanted to prolong and duplicate past experiences; others wanted to get out and start fresh somewhere else. Those of us who stayed became more protective of ourselves and our stories. Why couldn't we "go home again," even though we'd never left, even though a spiritual family was supposed to be a reflection of something different, better, eternal, and redeemed?
As an adult, after having been a member of three or four different churches and seen more politics, splits, and failures, I've begun to understand the fly in the church family ointment. I grew up loving and believing in the church as much as I believed in God, maybe more. Jesus had become synonymous with churches' names, pastors, worship styles, congregants. My experience of a particular expression of Christianity had come to replace faith.
In the scene in Matthew where Jesus tells the crowd who his real family is, maybe we had focused on the wrong part of the story. We grasped at the part about being brothers and sisters because that's what we understood, and it sounded appealing and right. Especially in the seventies, it fit in with the ideals of peace, love, and understanding. Doing the will of the father was the part we perhaps paid less attention to. And maybe Luke's harsh, hard to read, version is more helpful in the end: hating, or rejecting, anything, anyone, who ends up coming before following Jesus, is the only way to avoid the problems that come with the almost idolatrous worship of "the community."
Though the creation of an idealized, utopian society based on two verses in the book of Acts is probably just another way to deny that we need grace every second in order to be at all Christlike, I still tend to gravitate toward churches that attempt to act like families. It would be easier, honestly, not to. Because once you find your congregation and commit and make this public claim of family, and moreover once you start living like you believe what it says in the Bible about unity and the body of Christ, you open your life in every way to exactly the kind of pain and grief and frustration and inconvenience that we all spend so much time trying to avoid. Life is difficult enough without taking on the problems of a dozen or thirty or fifty or two-hundred people who aren't even your relatives, and being part of a church family brings at least as many problems as it soothes. Why would I seek that, rather than simply slipping into a different church each Sunday, no one knowing my name or my life story? Maybe because it's what I know, or maybe something mystical did happen in my baptism, joining me to this family that reaches across space and time. And, given the model of adoption laid out in John 1, I'm pretty sure that this is the kind of family that isn't about me choosing it, but it choosing me.
My father died at Thanksgiving, 2005, alone, still alienated from family—biological or otherwise. As far as I know, he never had the conversion experience we'd hoped and prayed for, and the instructions he left with the funeral home were brief: cremation, and no memorial or funeral or religious services of any kind were to be held. My allegiance lying elsewhere, the first person I contacted was my pastor, asking him to help arrange a brief and simple service to observe my father's passing. Within hours, members of my church—a Presbyterian church in Salt Lake City, years and miles and cultures away from the Bible church of my childhood—turned up with flowers, urns of coffee, cookies. Our house filled with people who never even met my dad but were connected to him and his story through me, familial ties extending in ways that can't be charted on a family tree. We all walked the several blocks from our house to a nearby cemetery, where we picked a spot on a hill to pray, and read a Psalm.
My sister and I had visited my father in the hospital the night before he died, and though at the time we had no idea that was what we were doing, were able to make some sort of peace. That's not easy when your father will barely look you in the eye, speak a sentence that indicates any interest in your life, or admit to profound failures. The promise of family and adoption inherent in baptism—the promise of belonging to Jesus—allowed us a kind of compassion for our dad we most certainly would not have been able to muster had we been relying on him to head our family. It's that contrast, between the way things are when we're on our own and the way they can be when we're God's, that keeps me looking to my church to be my family. Even in its most dysfunctional moments, a Christ-centered church family seems infinitely more right than a flailing biological one. With every Sunday service, potluck, home group, or hillside memorial, there's a momentary glimpse of a dim reflection of the glory of true home, where hating your mother and father might actually make sense, given how short they, and we, fall. Why would a bunch of Christians stand in a cemetery remembering the life of a man who disdained their faith, a man who didn't even want to be mourned? I think it was—and in all our attempts at family-making, is—our way of saying: this is how it could be, this is how it should be, this is how it will be when Christ finally does return, and all our families are redeemed.
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Q: Fill 2 different lists with .filter I am working with Angular 13 in a project where I have to populate a PickList component (it is a simple PrimeNG component, link is here).
The way we work with this component is simple. We receive from the backend a list of columns and the user has to select some or every single column in order to create a DataTable (also a PrimeNG component). Next, I am providing some code to show how we do it.
Column.ts
export interface Column {
  field: string;
  header: string;
  type: string;
  format: string;
  editable: boolean;
  widthColumn?: string;
}

column.service.ts
getColumns() {
    return this.http
      .get<any>(url)
      .toPromise()
      .then(res => <Column[]>res.data)
      .then(data => {
        return data;
      });
  }

picklist.component.ts
  sourceColumns!: Column[];
  targetColumns!: Column[];

ngOnInit(): void {
    this.columnService
      .getColumns()
      .then(columns => (this.sourceColumns = columns));
    this.targetColumns= [];
  }

But now, the backend has changed, and they added a new field, which is required, like this:
export interface Column {
      field: string;
      header: string;
      type: string;
      format: string;
      editable: boolean;
      widthColumn?: string;
      required: boolean;
    }

So now, by default, I have to fill those lists depending on if the column is required or not, with this criteria.

*

*If the column is required, push to targetColumns

*If the column is not required, push to sourceColumns
What I have tried so far:
this.columnService
      .getColumns()
      .then(columns => (this.allColumns = columns));

    let nonReqCol = this.allColumns.filter(column => column.required == false)
    let reqCol = this.allColumns.filter(column => column.required == true)

    this.sourceColumns= [...nonReqCol]
    this.targetColums= [...reqCol]

But it gives me this error on console:
ERROR TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'filter')

I can not figure it out why this is giving me this error, since I am doing (as far as I know) the same thing on both scenarios.

A: Try this:
this.columnService
      .getColumns()
      .then(columns => {
           this.allColumns = columns;
           this.filterColumns();
       ));

// ...
private filterColumns(): void {
    const nonReqCol = (this.allColumns || []).filter(column => column.required == false)
    const reqCol = (this.allColumns || []).filter(column => column.required == true)

    this.sourceColumns= [...nonReqCol];
    this.targetColums= [...reqCol];
}

Basically you are filtering columns but they are not defined yet.


Nanotechnology - not that green?
(Nanowerk Spotlight) There is a general perception that nanotechnologies will have a significant impact on developing 'green' and 'clean' technologies with considerable environmental benefits. Just take a look at the 30+ Spotlights we have written about the use of nanotechnology in areas ranging from water treatment to energy breakthroughs and hydrogen applications. As a matter of fact, renewable energy applications probably are the areas where nanotechnology will make its first large-scale commercial breakthroughs (see: Nanotechnology applications could provide the required energy breakthroughs).
Conflicting with this positive message is the growing body of research that raises questions about the potentially negative effects of engineered nanoparticles on human health and the environment (again, we have plenty of articles on this risk topic in our Spotlight series.
However, there is one area of nanotechnology that so far hasn't received the necessary attention: the actual processes of manufacturing nanomaterials and the environmental footprint they create, in absolute terms and in comparison with existing industrial manufacturing processes. Analogous to other industrial manufacturing processes, nanoproducts must proceed through various manufacturing stages to produce a material or device with nanoscale dimensions.
A recent overview article in the Journal of Industrial Ecology explores manufacturing routes of nanoproducts, with special attention focused on attributes likely to have significant environmental implications ("Toward Sustainable Nanoproducts"). The article was written by three scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) – first author Hatice Sengül,Siddhartha Ghosh, and Thomas Theis.
Apart from certain nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes, the volume of mass produced nanomaterials is relatively modest, especially when compared with the total output of chemicals. Nevertheless, a number of the materials used in nanoproducts are rare, with demand sometimes exceeding production (see for instance: "Ultrathin transparent graphene films as alternative to metal oxide electrodes").
The paper by the UIC scientists takes a detailed look at the sources of environmental impacts of current production methods for nanomaterials and they evaluate both top-down and bottom-up nanomanufacturing methods.
There are a number of areas where the manufacture of nanomaterials has an environmental impact (as does all manufacturing). The question of course is if nanomaterial production leaves a larger or a smaller environmental footprint than the manufacture of traditional chemicals and products. Due to the scarcity of quantitative data with regard to energy and resource consumption as well as waste materials, this question cannot be answered conclusively. There is evidence, though, that some production processes have a considerable negative impact. Carbon nanoparticles, for instance, are found to be highly energy-intensive materials, on the order of 2 to 100 times more energy-intensive than aluminum, even with idealized production models ("Energy Requirements of Carbon Nanoparticle Production").
Or consider this: For certain one-dimensional nanoproducts, energy intensity (in terms of mass of fossil fuel use per product) is 400 times higher than that of a refrigerator and 700 times that of an automobile ("Environmental impacts of microchip manufacture").
The following is a summary of the sources of environmental impacts as identified and described by the UIC researchers.
Semiconductor devices as well as many nanomaterials require extraordinary levels of purity in terms of starting materials, water, and chemicals used during production, as well as the frequent requirement for a clean room environment. The processes to achieve the required levels of purity are energy intensive. For instance, the energy intensity of a class 1 or 10 clean room is five times higher than a class 100,000 clean room.
Ultrapure water for processing requires an average of 1.4 to 1.6 gallons of potable water to obtain 1 gallon of ultrapure water. Subsequent recycling of ultrapure spent rinse water, which contains trace elements of metals, acids/bases, and solvents, poses several challenges.
The authors write that, for many processes, only a small percentage of the starting materials is ultimately incorporated into final products, the rest accumulating on reactor walls (thus requiring frequent cleaning) or flowing to effluent waste streams. "Few systematic methods for recovering unused materials exist at present. Deposition, ion implantation, chamber cleaning, and dry etching techniques, for 1-D nanoproducts manufacturing, have low material or precursor utilization efficiencies, ranging from 3% to 10% for MBE and 1 to 20% for metal organic CVD."
One example of how high-repetition processing steps create large amounts of waste materials: "Nanoparticles extracted from solution by precipitation and centrifugation must be washed repeatedly with organic solvents and ultrapure water until the products are isolated from solvents, surfactants, or reagents. Liquid-phase synthesis techniques also require postannealing treatments to change the morphology of the products. As much as 15 liters of solvent per gram of product may be used."
Modern chip production technologies require numerous processing steps that involve a significant use of chemicals, surfactants and ultrapure water. The report notes that the lithography step is the most waste-producing process during wafer processing. It is a chemically intensive process that "is characterized by both significant energy consumption (excimer lasers) and the use of chemicals (coatings and photoresist mixtures), some of which are toxic and have to be disposed of as hazardous waste."
According to the report, it is estimated that 99.9% of materials used to manufacture one-dimensional nanoproducts are not contained in the final products. Also, "despite major reductions in energy consumption and ultrapure water use, chemical use per product and chemical waste generation have been increasing in semiconductor facilities due to increasing wafer production and more complex processes."
In addition, life cycle impact analyses have not been done yet for many of the chemicals used in nanomanufacturing, so a total environmental footprint cannot be compiled yet.
Many of the specialized nanomanufacturing processes are energy hogs due to demanding process requirements such as ultrahigh vacuums or high temperatures that can reach 1,000° C or more. Although deposition times during thin film production are actually quite short, deposition chambers have to be ramped up as long as 24 hours prior to deposition.
"Greenhouse gases emanate from two general sources: those generated upstream of nanostructure manufacturing (many processes have significant energy requirements, often in the form of high and/or prolonged heat), and those that are a direct result of manufacturing processes, such as the PFCs used for cleaning deposition chambers and as dry etching gases."
The authors conclude that, from an examination of the attributes of existing nanomanufacturing processes, a number of efficiency and toxicity problems exist and they will need to be addressed as the field matures. What cannot be answered fully yet is whether nanotechnology manufacturing processes are more or less sustainable than 'conventional' industrial methods because life cycle comparisons have not been done yet.
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2. Design safer chemicals and products: Design chemical products to be fully effective, yet have little or no toxicity.
3. Design less hazardous chemical syntheses: Design syntheses to use and generate substances with little or no toxicity to humans and the environment.
4. Use renewable feedstocks: Use raw materials and feedstocks that are renewable rather than depleting. Renewable feedstocks are often made from agricultural products or are the wastes of other processes; depleting feedstocks are made from fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, or coal) or are mined.
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12. Minimize the potential for accidents: Design chemicals and their forms (solid, liquid, or gas) to minimize the potential for chemical accidents including explosions, fires, and releases to the environment.


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'The Blacklist' Season 3 Spoilers: Will Tom Keen Return? EP Teases New Relationship With Liz [VIDEO]
By Alex Garofalo @Ja9GarofaloTV
Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) will return to help Liz (Megan Boone, who is not pictured) in "The Blacklist" Season 3. Photo: NBC
In the Season 2 finale of "The Blacklist," Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) sailed away into the sunset, but now that his estranged wife, Liz Keen (Megan Boone), is a high-profile fugitive, will he return in Season 3? The covert operative has already come back after disappearing twice on the show -- once after he was presumed dead, but in reality was Liz's prisoner, and once after fleeing the country, when Liz set him free. Well, executive producer Jon Bokenkamp indicated fans can expect to see Tom in action yet again in the new episodes, but this time around things will be different for him and Liz.
Bokenkamp told Entertainment Weekly that, given the fact Liz is currently a fugitive, the dynamic between the pair will be radically different.
"Tom has been cleared, and Liz is now a fugitive on the run," Bokenkamp said. He elaborated:
"They're completely flipped in who they are and almost also in the way they approach the situation -- she's now feeling the desperation of being a criminal and trying to operate in the shadows, and he's trying to come clean and trying to redeem himself in her eyes. Tom was sailing off to white sands and blue beaches and felt it was over. What he doesn't know is she assassinated the attorney general of the United States. When he catches wind of this, he'll have something to say about it and will not want to sit back."
What will Tom do after finding out that Liz is in trouble? Fans will remember that in the Season 2 finale, Liz and Tom shared a tender moment when she admitted that she feared losing him. The seasonlong battle with the Cabal had forced Liz to cross some ethical lines, and she no longer saw herself as so different from her undercover spy husband. She decided to join him in a plan to run away on his boat and start a new life. The two ended up spending the night together, getting pretty hot and heavy. The next day, though, Liz changed her mind and decided to keep helping Red fight the Cabal after all. The last fans saw of Tom, he was sailing for the horizon with no knowledge that Liz had just killed the (corrupt) Attorney General Tom Connolly (Reed Birney).
Watch the promo for "The Blacklist" Season 3 below:
How will Tom even find out that Liz is in danger? And what will he do to help? Fans will have to wait to find out.
"The Blacklist" Season 3 premieres on NBC Thursday, Sept. 24, at 9 p.m. EDT.
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In years past the Lone Tree Police Department has supported and even co-sponsored the YESS Parent Academy alongside the other Law Enforcement Agencies in Douglas County. This event is being held once again on October 16th, with a Resource Fair from 6pm to 6:30pm, and then the Academy presentation from 6:30 to 8:30pm. The YESS Academy is being held on the Charles Schwab campus and I have attached the flyer with more information to this email. The reviews from parents who have attended in the past are very positive and they say the information is extremely helpful. I would encourage parents, grandparents, or any adult who is concerned with the safety and well-being of children to attend.
*New this year is a 16-minute video on YouTube that attendees are being asked to watch in preparation for the YESS Parent Academy night. To make it a little easier, I have added the link for this video below. It does include some very interesting information and some reference materials for parents.
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April 7, 2019 • Pastor Mark Q.
1. Discuss a time that you knew you were doing what God asked you to do? 2. Read Proverbs 28:19. In what area do you feel you are struggling with no restraint in your life? 3. Where and how are you making a difference in the kingdom of God? 4. Read Acts 20:24. Notice this phrase in the scripture, "the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus." How are you living out this assignment?
We've all hit roadblocks in our lives that keep us from moving forward. Maybe it's a lie or a past mistake. This wknd, we're Finding Freedom from the areas that keep us from reaching our full potential.
1. When has an emotion kept you from doing something you knew you should be doing? 2. Describe a time when you were not able to express yourself. How did that make you feel? 3. What are some of the things that prevent us from being free from certain attachments? 4. In what areas have you tried to be free from something that was overtaking your mind or body? 5. Share a time that you were set free from an emotional or physical struggle? What disciplines were most helpful?


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5 Movie Posters That Go Crazy When You Actually Look At Them
Zanandi Botes ·
Art is an impossible concept to define. It speaks a language of its own, saying different things to different people. A piece can be declared a masterwork by some and trash by others. Such ambiguity isn't the case here, as these are objectively bad movie posters that somehow managed to fail in the ridiculously simple task of saying, "This film is of a certain type, and here are the actors in it."
The Heavy Petting Movie Poster Couldn't Get A Real Dog In The Room?
Heavy Petting is not a movie about Malin Akerman getting felt up. Well, it sort of is, but it's mostly about a dog that stands in the way of true love. Someone took two things everyone loves, ruined them both, and called it a film. And it doesn't matter, because everyone reading this constitutes literally the first people to know this movie exists. Even the "Official Website" link on Wikipedia redirects to an Asian page about bank cards, because again, we are the first people to ever try to learn anything about this film, and that includes the people who made its posters. Here's one of those:
Anchor Bay Entertainment"Our in-flight movie is Heavy Petting, which means yes, you died hours ago and this is Flight 666 to Hell."
The poster doesn't advertise much. "This is a movie about a dog," it seems to say. And yet right away, the poster has failed, because based on that image, we are utterly unconvinced that the film features a real dog. It's such a bad composite that it's not clear whether it's supposed to look like the dog is pinching her nipple. "Probably?" you might think, since its paws are on her boob, directly under the words Heavy Petting. "I hope not," you might also think.
In later versions of the poster, they re-Photoshopped the dog to make it look 10 percent more present while it licks the beautiful, talented, creatively unfulfilled actress Malin Akerman.
Anchor Bay Entertainment"... and it's gonna get ruff." -- a cry for help from an almost certainly suicidal copywriter.
So now it looks like Akerman is being kissed at the same moment a dog corpse is being thrown at her -- which, to the artist's credit, would almost certainly disrupt the couple's attempts at romance. Maybe they finally got it right with the release of the director's cut?
Anchor Bay Entertainment"Watch out for this cock-blocker spaniel this holiday season!"
The Snowman Poster Makes It Look Like The Killer Is A Seven-Year-Old
The marketing for The Snowman began with a rather mundane murder movie poster. You know, a bloody patch in the snow, some scrawled text about hunting a killer. It's so unremarkable that most people probably mistook it for a re-release of Fargo.
Universal PicturesMurder! Suspense! Fassbender trudging through the snow! What more do you want!?
Then the studio went and dropped this:
Universal Pictures"MISTER POLICE MY DADDY IS PRESIDENT OF MURDER AND HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO TRICK YOU. MY FAVORITE MEAT IS HOT DOG."
What was supposed to look like a taunting letter to the police ended up looking like a kid pulling a prank. No longer was this a movie about Michael Fassbender hunting down a serial killer in the frigid, bloodsoaked snow. Now the whole thing seemed to be some kind of Norwegian Home Alone parody. People were both confused and delighted, and that's how you birth a meme.
The internet loves to turn failure into conversational shorthand, and soon everyone was taunting MISTER POLICE with how they accidentally made a poop or forgot to wear pants. The film itself was a critical and commercial failure, but maybe not because everyone had spent weeks making fun of it. Though it must take some of the edge off the horror when you go into a movie half expecting the killer to be an actual magical snowman.
@pilotbacon/Twitter"This serial killer snowman is about to meet the dog sworn to stop him ... and things are gonna get ruff!"
The Accidental Husband Posters Are Random Assortments Of Heads, Bodies, And Arms
The Accidental Husband sees Uma Thurman playing a radio host who advises a caller to break up with her fiance, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Uma herself is engaged to Colin Firth, and when Jeffrey finds that out ... well, it's a comedy, so you can guess where this goes. The first poster expresses the plot pretty well:
Yari Film Group"And when you find out this love expert is a dog!? ... it's gonna get ruff!"
It's so badly chopped together that it looks like someone taped in a stack of random faces and arms cut out of an Us Weekly. Firth is looking at the back of Uma's head, and that photo of Morgan was clearly taken as he watched a hitchhiker scream for help on a surveillance monitor. This is not a romantic movie poster. This is something you'd make if you never had time for your photo collage hobby because of your busy career as a murderer. Let's look at the next one:
Yari Film GroupNone of these arms or people were ever in the same room.
OK Colin, what are you seeing, mate? He looks like he's either trying to pretend that there isn't a piece of gum stuck to Uma's hair, or he's trying to remember if he left a baby in the backseat of his car.
This next one is just a woman falling to her certain death while two men sarcastically watch it? It seems like some kind of visual metaphor got stretched too far, and it cost Thurman's character her life.
Yari Film Group"When two men with no depth perception get a job as stuntmen, and one of them likes dogs, it's gonna get ruf- kill me. I yearn for death, but lack the strength to greet him."
The Whole Ten Yards Poster Got Every Part Of Every Human Wrong
Can you imagine trying to fit five entire people onto a single movie poster? You can? It happens all the time? Well, the person who Frankensteined the poster for The Whole Ten Yards made it look very, very hard.
Warner Bros. Pictures"When these ten yards meet 20 yards of dogs ... it's gonna get ruff! You know what? It doesn't even hurt anymore. It feels like nothing."
Six-foot Matthew Perry has had his head clumsily removed and placed on a man with a torso only slightly larger than it. It looks like the only person here with all their original parts is Bruce Willis, whose skin has been so buried by the blur tool that he's more smear than man.
Warner Bros. PicturesHe's still sporting the smooth, bagless eyes of a 63-year-old man.
Maybe things will look better without the title in the middle?
Warner Bros. PicturesNOPE.
Somehow Perry's weird little head looks even more out of place. It's like they started by searching for a stock photo of "Bruce Willis vacuuming with a rooster," got very lucky, and then had to build the rest of the poster from scratch. Which explains why Kevin Pollak is playing some kind of fleshy alien penguin that walks on human hands.
Warner Bros. Pictures"BLGGH! BLAAGHGBLB!!! YOUR PLANET IS IN TERRIBLE DANGER!!! BLLORGGGHHBLG!!!!"
He'd probably be happy to know that some countries decided to edit him out of the DVD cover altogether. It still looks like a group of medical students cobbled a tableau with random cadavers, but at least there's no monster climbing on it anymore.
Warner Bros. Pictures"Jimmy 'Tulipan' je zpet ... and ya, it is going to get ruff!"
The Left Behind Poster Forgot What Nicolas Cage Looks Like
If the poster didn't list Cage's name at the top, you might be forgiven for thinking that they cast a lookalike, or maybe a melted prop from Face/Off.
Freestyle Releasing"When these survivors of the Biblical apocalypse meet this rowdy canine ..." *sound of gun cocking*
It's truly strange what they've done here. This is man who we've seen contort his face into all manner of absurd expressions, and they somehow found the one where it doesn't look like him. This is a man who replaced his head with a cartoon in the late '80s, and this poster made him look like a fan drawing by an artist who specializes in Sonic the Hedgehog fucking horses. Look at this facial range. How did they find a way to make this man look unusually ridiculous?
Columbia Pictures, Touchstone Pictures
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This first exhibition at Gallery 139 for 2016, celebrates the way dogs are portrayed in art. With 10% of gallery commission being donated by the gallery to the Hunter Animal Watch Op Shop, Beaumont St, Hamilton - Hunter Animal Watch Inc is an animal charity, a voluntary organisation, committed to animal welfare issues and to pet desexing in the Hunter Region of New South Wales Australia.
Exhibiting artists: Michael Bell, Carolyn Phillips, Nicola Bolton, Greg Slevin, Damien Slevin, Danny Sky, Dino Consalvo, Andrew Finnie, Vanessa Lewis, Susan Ryman, Peter Read, Kerri Smith, Jill Orr, Jo Shand, Lydia Miller, Shelagh Lummis, Flynn Doran, Peter Lankas, Paul Maher, Claire Martin, Catherine Tempest, Judy Henry, Linda Greedy, Christina Frogley, Tanya Matas, Cherie Freeman, Jay Muldoon, Helene Leane.
We are proud to report that this exhibition raised $422.00 for Hunter Animal Watch Inc. Beaumont St Hamilton.
STOCKROOM works during exhibition by Damien Slevin and Linda Greedy below, available for viewing upon request in the gallery.


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Q: Transform characters to numbers I have a data.frame of two vectors.
df <- data.frame(G1=c("b","a","e","d","c"),
                 G2=c("c","d","e","b","a"))

You can see that both vectors have the same characters, but in diferent order. I want to convert them into numbers and then compare them.
To compare G2 to G1, G1 must be the reference, so the output will be this:
df2 <- data.frame(G1=c("1","2","3","4","5"),
                 G2=c("5","4","3","1","2"))

Is there a way to do this?, thanls

A: This seems to give your output:
df <- data.frame(G1=c("b","a","e","d","c"),
                 G2=c("c","d","e","b","a"))

G1 <- as.character(as.numeric(factor(df$G1,levels=unique(df$G1))))
G2 <- as.character(as.numeric(factor(df$G2,levels=unique(df$G1))))
df2<-data.frame(G1,G2)
df2
#   G1 G2
# 1  1  5
# 2  2  4
# 3  3  3
# 4  4  1
# 5  5  2

Note that df2 displays as numeric but in fact is character. Also note that in defining G2 we use the levels of df$G1. This is key.

A: Try this:
df2 <- data.frame(G1 = match(df$G1, unique(df$G1)))
df2$G2 <- match(df$G2, unique(df$G1))
df2
#  G1 G2
#1  1  5
#2  2  4
#3  3  3
#4  4  1
#5  5  2

A: load CRAN package : hash
require("hash")

df <- data.frame(G1=c("b","a","e","d","c"),
                 G2=c("c","d","e","b","a"),
                 stringsAsFactors= FALSE)

Determine the column number to be considered as hash key (Eg: Column 1 as below)
hashkey <- df[,1]

Set unique hash values for the length of a column (Eg: Column 1 as below)
hashval <- seq(1, length(df[,1]))

Create hash table (associative array) using the hash function
h <- hash (keys = hashkey,
           values = hashval
          )

"getvalues" function will extract values for every record in the data frame
The function "values" is part of hash package
getvalues <- function(x) {

  vals <- values(h[x],
                 USE.NAMES = FALSE)
  return(vals)

}

Apply "getvalues" function to every record in a data frame
You need to manually change column numbers of "df" data frame to have the effect of getvalues function applied to it. (Eg: Column numbers 1 and 2 as below)
df[,1:2] <- data.frame(lapply(df[,1:2],
                              FUN = function(x) { sapply(x,FUN = getvalues )}),
                       stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

df

  G1 G2
1  1  5
2  2  4
3  3  3
4  4  1
5  5  2

str(df)
'data.frame':   5 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ G1: int  1 2 3 4 5
 $ G2: int  5 4 3 1 2

If you need values in the data frame to be of character type, use this form of getvalues function.
getvalues <- function(x) {
  vals <- values(h[x],
                 USE.NAMES = FALSE)
  return(as.character(vals))
}

str(df)
'data.frame':   5 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ G1: chr  "1" "2" "3" "4" ...
 $ G2: chr  "5" "4" "3" "1" ...

HTH

A: Thank you very much for all your suggestions,
this is what I have done with the original data.frame:
df$G1.num <- 1:length(df$G1)
df$G2.num <-  match(df$G2,df$G1)
df

In this way I get a nice output, where I can see the original terms, plus their numerical designation:
  G1 G2 G1.num G2.num
1  b  c      1      5
2  a  d      2      4
3  e  e      3      3
4  d  b      4      1
5  c  a      5      2


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Lest We Forget — Bayard Dodge (1888-1972)
Mesrob Vartabed Ashjian, Spurk, 31 December 1972
Translated by Vahe H. Apelian
The late Archbishop Mesrob Ashjian posted this article in Simon Simonian's "Spurk" weekly (Dec. 31, 1972). It was translated and abridged by Vahe H. Apelian.–Editor.
The Armenian media kept a strange silence at the death of a great friend of the Armenians, Bayard Dodge. Strange, because he was a towering figure in Lebanon and a great number of people have been beneficiaries of his good deeds. He contributed greatly towards the establishment of the Lebanese Armenian community.
Bayard Dodge standing far right in above photo
It was my pleasure in the last two years to meet him and relive with him the period when caravans of destitute Armenians would arrive in Lebanon and find shelter in orphanages preparing to face life and end up establishing the vibrant present Armenian community in Lebanon. I feel a debt of gratitude towards him and belatedly pen these lines in his memory. More than others, he deserved to be remembered and eulogized by Armenians.
Bayard Dodge was born in 1888 in a family known for its humanitarian missionary zeal. His name, along with that of his father's Cleveland, great paternal uncle Steward, and father-in-law Daniel Bliss remain forever associated with the American University of Beirut (AUB).
After attending Princeton and other top American universities, Dodge headed to Lebanon. It would become his adopted country. He set foot in Lebanon in 1913 and immediately assumed a variety of responsibilities. His caring heart and generosity of spirit would reveal themselves when he was appointed director of the Near East Relief Association in 1920 where he rendered incalculable assistance to the Armenian orphans. From 1923 to 1948 he acted as president of the AUB. During his distinguished tenure he made the university a center of learning and knowledge to people in Lebanon, in Asia, Africa and Europe.
After his retirement he returned to the U.S. For the next quarter-of-century he maintained his ties with Lebanon and continued to work for the betterment of the country. Prime Minister Saeb Salam eulogized him saying: "Bayard Dodge exemplified the best in Americans. He understood the people of Lebanon as well as the Arab peoples. He identified himself with them and made their social, educational, and national struggles his own."
Bayard Dodge was also known as a man of faith. Even though he was a devoted Christian he saw much commonality with Muslims. In a statement that appeared posthumously, he said: "A good Muslim and a good Christian are alike in many ways. It is a blessing that the American University of Beirut was founded in Lebanon, which is a unique country".
The AUB's modest and unpretentious president was also a scholar, and a capable administrator devoted to good causes. He was honored by many universities receiving honorary doctoral degrees. Syrian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Iranian, Polish, French, Greek and British governments decorated him with medals of distinction. In 1960 he was honored the "Woodrow Wilson" award. Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon, posthumously bestowed upon him the National Order of Cedar First Class.
Bayard Dodge died on May 30, 1972. Memorial services were rendered in Princeton and in Lebanon. Alas, we Armenians could not express our gratitude on these occasions for the services he rendered to us, among them for his decisive role in the acquisition of the [Antilias] property for the seat of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
The world bestowed upon him all the accolades it could. Surely it is the God's recognition of him as a devoted servant mattered most to him, for he worked tirelessly to live up to the motto of the university he served: "That they may have life and have it more abundantly".
The Dodges displayed in their home with affection the attached photo of Bayard Dodge receiving the plaque the Armenian community presented to him in 1948 as a token of its gratitude. Also in the photo, Catholicos Karekin I Hovsepian is sitting next to Mrs. Dodge.
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Since all computers get dirty with time, and need to be cleaned for maintence and good performance, I was wondering if the Mac Pro and iMac also need such cleaning.

A: I periodically open up my Mac pro and vacuum out the dust that the case fans tend to accumulate. The iMac's harder to access, but it's less prone to dust too. Other than said dust control, you shouldn't need to clean anything.

A: They're no more or less dirt-prone that other computers.

all computers... need to be cleaned for maintence and good performance

I'd query the good performance part. Sounds like nonsense.


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Tom King é um autor, escritor de histórias em quadrinhos estadunidense e ex-agente do departamento contra-terrorismo da CIA. Conhecido principalmente por ter escrito The Vision para a Marvel Comics, The Sheriff of Babylon para a Vertigo, Batman e Mister Miracle na fase "Rebirth" ("Renascimento"), para a DC Comics; além do romance A Once Crowded Sky.

Início da vida
King cresceu no sul da Califórnia. Sua mãe trabalhava para a indústria cinematográfica, o que inspirou seu amor pela narrativa. Estagiou tanto na DC como na Marvel Comics no final dos anos de 1990. Estudou filosofia e história na Universidade Columbia e graduou-se em 2000.

Carreira
King estagiou na DC Comics e Marvel Comics, onde foi assistente do escritor Chris Claremont da revista X-Men, antes de ingressar na unidade contraterrorismo da CIA após o 11 de Setembro. King passou sete anos no departamento de operações contraterrorismo da CIA até sua saída para escrever seu romance de estreia, A Once Crowded Sky, depois do nascimento do seu primeiro filho.

A Once Crowded Sky, romance de super-heróis de King com páginas de quadrinhos ilustradas por Tom Fowler, foi publicado em 10 de julho de 2012 pela Touchstone, um selo da Simon & Schuster, com recepção positiva.

King foi escolhido para co-escrever com Tim Seeley a revista Grayson para a DC Comics, a arte da HQ ficou com Mikel Janin. Depois de terminarem a Nightwing #30, King, Seeley e Janin lançaram Grayson em maio de 2014, protagonizada por Dick Grayson que abandona o manto do Asa Noturna aos 22 anos para torna-se o Agente 37, um espião da Spyral. King e Seeley escreveram a série em conjunto, só que algumas edições foram assinadas somente por um dos roteiristas, King forneceu autenticidade adicional por causa do seu tempo na CIA.

Um relançamento da clássica série da DC Comics The Omega Men foi publicada em junho de 2015 por King e o artista estreante Barnaby Bagendas, como parte do relançamento da editora, o selo DC You. A série acompanha um grupo de rebeldes na luta contra um império galáctico opressor, estrelada pelo Lanterna Branco Kyle Rayner. Os Ômega Men, criados em 1981, são uma espécie de equivalente cósmico da DC aos Guardiões da Galáxia da Marvel, com traços mais obscuros. O uso dos nove painéis por página empregado por Bagenda e King, popularizada por Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons em Watchmen, foi elogiado pelos críticos.

Na San Diego Comic-Con de 2015, a Vertigo revelou um novo projeto "creator-owned" escrito por King com arte de Mitch Gerads batizado de The Sheriff of Baghdad. O projeto, uma série da Vertigo, linha adulta e experimental da DC, ao estilo dos títulos Preacher e Scalped, lançada no final de 2015 e inspirada no tempo que King passou no Iraque enquanto trabalhava para a CIA. Inicialmente uma minissérie de oito edições, depois foi rebatizada para The Sheriff of Babylon e passou a ser uma série regular. A primeira edição lançada em dezembro de 2015 foi aclamada pela crítica. Como parte das celebrações dos 75 anos do Robin em 2015, a DC anunciou em painel na convenção, "Robin War" ("Guerra dos Robins"), um arco crossover durante cinco semanas das revistas Grayson, Detective Comics, Robin: Son of Batman e We Are Robin com início em dezembro; King foi o orquestrador do enredo do crossover e escritor de duas edições especiais ("one-shots"), para abrir e fechar série.

Como parte do relançamento All-New, All-Different da Marvel Comics, King foi anunciado como escritor da revista The Vision, uma nova série regular do personagem e sua nova família, ao lado do artista Gabriel Hernández Walta, cores por Jordie Bellaire e capas de Mike Del Mundo, lançada em novembro de 2015. The Vision foi bem recebida pelo público, com os críticos chamando a série de uma das "maiores surpresas" da Marvel e elogiando a narrativa, arte e cores.

Em setembro de 2015, a DC cancelou The Omega Men de King e mais 4 títulos e a série terminaria na sétima edição. Após a resposta negativa dos fãs com o cancelamento, Jim Lee, co-publisher da DC, anunciou que trariam novamente a The Omega Men até pelo menos a edição #12. Lee descreveu a decisão de cancelar a série como "um pouco precipitada" creditando a aclamação da crítica e as reações nas mídias pelos fãs à revista como a razão pelo qual o título iria continuar a ser publicado para um total de 12 edições.

King escreveu uma edição especial de Green Lantern interligada à história "Darkseid War" da Liga da Justiça, intitulada "Will You Be My God?", que James Whitbrook do io9 elogiou como "uma das melhores" do Lanterna Verde.

King e o co-roteirista Tim Seeley anunciaram que deixariam Grayson depois da edição #18, e King esclareceu no Twitter que eles estavam trabalhando em algo "grande e legal" e precisavam de tempo. King e Seeley deixaram oficialmente a série em fevereiro na edição #17 (2016), com Jackson Lanzing e Collin Kelly assumindo as três últimas edições, a partir da edição #18 de março.

A DC Comics anunciou em fevereiro de 2016 que King assinou um acordo de exclusividade com a editora, que passaria a escrever exclusivamente para a DC e Vertigo. King revelou através de sua conta no Twitter que escreveria a edição 12 de The Vision, concluindo a série e o arco que ele havia planejado no início.

Em março de 2016, foi anunciado que King escreveria o título quinzenal do Homem-Morcego, Batman, que teve seu numeração reiniciada para a edição #1, substituindo o escritor de longa data do título Scott Snyder, como parte do relançamento da DC em junho chamado Rebirth.

Em 2017, o roteirista da HQ do Batman, Tom King junto com o desenhista de Sheriff of Babylon, Mitch Gerards, começaram a minissérie do Senhor Milagre ("Mister Miracle"). Criado por Jack Kirby para a DC Comics em 1971, Scott Free faz parte do universo do Quarto Mundo e dos Novos Deuses. A HQ começou a sair em agosto e terá um total de 12 edições. O CBR veiculou que devido ao grande sucesso de Senhor Milagre, a primeira e a segunda edição da minissérie estão esgotadas e a editora irá imprimir novas revistas pela terceira e pela segunda vez, respectivamente. Em entrevista, em janeiro de 2018, Dan DiDio, editor da DC Comics, afirmou que a ideia para Mister Miracle (um dos quadrinhos mais elogiados de 2017) surgiu durante uma conversa de bar durante a madrugada.

Em junho de 2018, a DC Comics anunciou que King estaria escrevendo Heroes in Crisis, uma minissérie centrada em torno de um conceito que ele introduziu em Batman. No mês seguinte, ele recebeu o Prêmio Eisner de Melhor Escritor, dividido com a escritora Marjorie Liu.

Em maio de 2019, a DC Comics anunciou que King deixaria o posto de escritor em Batman na edição #85, mas seguirá escrevendo o personagem na minissérie Batman e Mulher-Gato, encerrando assim seu planejamento para o herói. O autor foi escolhido para roteirizar o filme baseado nos Novos Deuses, projeto dirigido pela cineasta Ava DuVernay. Em julho, foi agraciado com seu segundo Prêmio Eisner de Melhor Escritor, além de fazer parte da equipe criativa ganhadora nas categorias Melhor História Curta, Melhor Minissérie e Melhor Álbum Gráfico de Republicação.

Vida pessoal
King mora em Washington, D.C. com a esposa e seus três filhos.

Prêmios
 2017 — Prêmio Eisner como Melhor História: "Good Boy", junto com David Finch, por Batman Annual #1 (DC);
 2017 — Prêmio Eisner como Melhor Minissérie: The Vision, junto com Gabriel Walta (Marvel).
 2018 — Prêmio Eisner como Melhor Escritor por Batman Annual #2, Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1 e Mister Miracle.
 2019 — Prêmio Eisner como Melhor Escritor por Batman, Mister Miracle, Heroes in Crisis e Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC Comics)

Bibliografia

Romance
 A Once Crowded Sky (com ilustrações de Tom Fowler, 336 páginas, Touchstone, 2012, ISBN 1-4516-5200-3)

DC Comics e Vertigo
 Time Warp: "It's Full of Demons" (com Tom Fowler, antologia, edição especial, 2013)

 Nightwing vol. 3 #30: "Setting Son" (com Tim Seeley, Javier Garrón, Jorge Lucas e Mikel Janín, 2014) compilado em Volume 5: Setting Son (graphic novel, 200 páginas, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-5011-4)

 Grayson (com Tim Seeley, Mikel Janín, Stephen Mooney (#7, 14, Annual #1, edição especial Futures End e um conto da Secret Origins v3 #8) e Álvaro Martínez (Annual #2), 2014–2016) compilado como:
 Agents of Spyral (coletando #1–4, edição especial Futures End e um conto da Secret Origins v3 #8, capa dura, 160 páginas, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5234-6; capa comum, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5759-3)
 We All Die at Dawn (coletando #5–8 e Annual #1, graphic novel, 160 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5760-7)
 Nemesis (coletando preview da Divergence, #9–12 e Annual #2, graphic novel, 160 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6276-7)
 A Ghost in the Tomb (coletando #13–17, graphic novel, 184 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6762-9)

 Vertigo Quarterly: CMYK #4: "Black Death in America" (com John Paul Leon, antologia, 2015) compilado em CMYK (graphic novel, 296 páginas, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5336-9)

 Teen Titans v5 Annual #1: "The Source of Mercy" (com Will Pfeifer, Alisson Borges e Wes St. Claire, 2015) compilado em Volume 2: Rogue Targets (graphic novel, 192 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6162-0)

 The Omega Men v3 #1–12 (com Barnaby Bagenda e Toby Cypress (#4), 2015–2016) compilando The Omega Men: The End is Here (graphic novel, 296 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6153-1)

 Justice League: Darkseid War: Green Lantern: "Will You Be My God?" (com Evan Shaner, edição especial, 2016) compilado em Justice League: Power of the Gods (capa dura, 200 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6149-3; capa comum, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6524-3)

 Robin War (capa dura, 256 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6208-2; capa comum, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6811-0) incluindo:
 "With the Greatest of Ease" (com Rob Haynes, Khary Randolph, Mauricet, Jorge Corona e Andres Guinaldo, em #1, 2016)
 "The Daring Young Man" (com Carmine Di Giandomenico, Khary Randolph, Álvaro Martínez, e Scott McDaniel, em #2, 2016)

 The Sheriff of Babylon #1–12 (com Mitch Gerads, 2016–2017) compilado como:
 Vol. 1: Bang. Bang. Bang. (coletando #1–6, graphic novel, 160 páginas, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6466-2)
 Vol. 2: Pow. Pow. Pow. (coletando #7–12, graphic novel, 160 páginas, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6726-2)
 The Sheriff of Babylon: The Deluxe Edition (coletando #1–12, graphic novel, capa dura, 299 páginas, 2018, ISBN 978-1401277918)

 Batman vol. 3 (com Scott Snyder (edição especial Rebirth), David Finch, (#1–6), Mikel Janín (edição especial Rebirth, #9–...), Steve Orlando + Riley Rossmo (#7–8), 2016–...) compilado como:
 Vol. 1: I Am Gotham (coletando a edição especial Rebirth e #1–6, graphic novel, 192 páginas, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6777-7)
 Vol. 2: I Am Suicide (coletando #9–15, graphic novel, 168 páginas, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6854-4)
 Vol. 3: I Am Bane (coletando #16–20, 23–24 e o conto "Good Boy" da Batman Annual v3 #1, graphic novel, 176 páginas, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-7131-6)
 Vol. 4: The War of Jokes and Riddles (coletando #25–32, graphic novel, 200 páginas, 2018, ISBN 978-1401273613)
 Vol. 5: Rules of Engagement (coletando #33–37, graphic novel, 160 páginas, 2018, ISBN 978-1401277314)
 Vol. 6: Bride or Burglar (coletando #38–44, graphic novel, 168 páginas, 2018, ISBN 978-1401280277)

 Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1 (com Lee Weeks, edição especial, junho de 2017)

 Mister Miracle vol. 4 #1–12 (com Mitch Gerads, agosto de 2017–...)

 The Kamandi Challenge #9 (com Kevin Eastman, setembro de 2017)
 Batman/The Flash: The Button Deluxe Edition (com Joshua Williamson, Jason Fabok e Howard Porter) compilando Batman vol. 3 #21–22 e The Flash vol. 5 #21–22 (capa dura, graphic novel, 104 páginas, outubro de 2017, ISBN 978-1401276447)
 Batman: Night of the Monster Men (com Steve Orlando, Riley Rossmo e vários outros) compilando Batman vol. 3 #7–8 e Nightwing #7–8 e Detective Comics #941–942 (graphic novel: capa cartão, 144 páginas, outubro de 2017, ISBN 978-1401274313; capa dura, 144 páginas, fevereiro de 2018, ISBN 978-1401270674)

Marvel
 The Vision vol. 2 (com Gabriel Hernández Walta e Michael Walsh (#7), Marvel, 2016) compilado como:
 Little Worse than a Man (coletando #1–6, graphic novel, 136 páginas, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9657-9)
 Little Better than a Beast (coletando #7–12, graphic novel, 136 páginas, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9658-7)
 Vision: The Complete Series (Vision: Director's Cut) coletando #1–12, graphic novel, capa dura, 488 páginas, janeiro de 2018, ISBN 978-1302908539)

Ligações externas

 Tom King  no Comic Book DB
 Tom King no site oficial da DC Comics
 Tom King no site oficial da Marvel Comics

Nascidos em 1978
Roteiristas de histórias em quadrinhos dos Estados Unidos
Pessoas vivas
Alunos da Universidade Columbia
Ganhadores do Prêmio Eisner de Melhor Escritor


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Meiya Tireira (born 15 April 1986) is a Malian women's basketball player for Valencia Basket in the Spanish Women's League. A member of the Mali women's national basketball team, Tireira competed in all 5 of Mali's matches at the 2008 Summer Olympics, scoring a total of 16 points and grabbing 19 rebounds.

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1986 births
Living people
African Games gold medalists for Mali
African Games medalists in basketball
Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Centers (basketball)
Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games
Competitors at the 2015 African Games
Forwards (basketball)
G.D. Interclube women's basketball players
Malian expatriate basketball people in Angola
Malian expatriate basketball people in Spain
Malian expatriate basketball people in Tunisia
Malian women's basketball players
Olympic basketball players of Mali
Sportspeople from Bamako
21st-century Malian people